...I have just popped over to rock n roll bride before i start my list for today - and I have to direct you over there to view a recent post of Kat's titled "Emma & Morgan’s Wonderfully Sustainable & Crafty Welsh Wedding" - take a look - if I were to do it all again........
...all I simply want to say today is that I love my job ...
..I have been making pretty little samples all day (see studio snippets) and simply chatting to clients about everything and anything and generally having a good old chin wag...I am always really sorry to see each and every client disappear into the avenue of 'togetherness'...you spend months developing a lovely friendship and then they all bloomin well go and get married and normally only have the need to use me once for wedding stationery (other social stationery available!!! ha ha). However, I have had a client come back to me 3 times for indeed wedding stationery and I know she won't mind me saying that as she reads this blog regularly...Hello Mrs **&%$**
...it may be dark and gloomy outside but summer sampling is in abundance in the studio - so feeling quite perky this morning...
... if you are slightly addicted to foodie blogs - like me - then the story behind Stephanie's will entice...this is a girl who almost solely eats dessert for breakfast and breakfast for dinner...perfect, tomorrow I shall start the day with lemon drizzle cake, mascarpone and raspberry cream and end with a bowl of oats and blueberries...and then dream of breakfast for the following day 
I just wanted to say a big thank you to Louise at Bow Occasions for featuring me on her fab blog, take a look to not only read the article but to browse and be inspired by all the vintage inspired posts you will just want to scroll through - you may want to sit with a cuppa as I think you will be there for a while. The blog has only been up and running since July but she has a pile high of delights - so you may want to sit with a couple of custard creams as well.... THANK YOU LOUISE... Click here 
...I always reach this time of year and feel as if I am trying to keep all of the plates spinning - from sampling to production to packing to marketing...but... this is the time of year I love as this is the month that I start to work on the ground drawings for the new collections for 2012 until November.
I know we have only just dipped our toe into September, but am I allowed to mention Christmas, as I have been working on weddings that fall over the festive period since July - I just wanted to introduce you to the christmas department at PAPER STORE - a very small selection of hand finished products - christmas card sets, place cards for receptions or dinner parties and place/gift tags. All products are decorated along the way in either flashes of silver or gold gild, stitch detail, diamante, collage, vintage cotton lace and are all from The Winter Collection. Here's a little peak...
...citrus is a seriously strong trend for next summer and the sample request packs that are coming through for next year are prooving just that...so here's something sweet from the handpicked pages of our research files...particularly love the 50's styled cake above from derbyshire based vintage and cake ...it would look perfect matched with our Miss Fondant Collection...
...there will be no question that there will be endless tears of joy on your big day. You have spent hours, days, weeks and months (some of you years!!) chanelling all your attention to the little details from button holes to dessert menus, seating plans to hair up - hair down...... but have you thought about 'a must have wedding hankie' vintage of course - yes? - no? - just as you thought you had everything on your wedding list ticked off I tempt you with one more little detail..... 
